Research on children’s drawing has focused primarily on the challenges they face in depicting reality on a two-dimensional surface. As they get older, their depictions become increasingly realistic. However, the development of drawing also reflects children’s increasing ability to surmount another challenge, notably the constraints imposed by what they know about reality. In the course of development, children become increasingly capable of drawing creatures and objects that they have not observed and that do not exist. More specifically, they are able to imagine hybrids and other impossible entities and to depict what they imagine. By implication, the development of drawing involves two distinct trajectories: increased realism alongside a growing ability to escape the confines of known reality. Effectively, children gradually become capable of portraying the unreal as if it were real.

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幼儿可以画什么不存在的东西吗？

对儿童绘画的研究主要集中在他们在二维表面上描绘现实时面临的挑战。随着年龄的增长，他们的描绘变得越来越现实。然而，绘画的发展也反映了儿童克服另一种挑战的能力日益增强，尤其是他们对现实的了解所施加的限制。在发展过程中，儿童变得越来越有能力绘画他们没有观察到的，不存在的生物和物体。更具体地说，他们能够想象杂种和其他不可能的实体并描绘他们所想象的。言下之意，绘画的发展涉及两个截然不同的轨迹：现实主义的增强和逃避已知现实界限的能力的增强。有效，